With an estimated net worth of $17.5 million, actress Thandie Newton has a career that many of her peers would kill for. In addition to her net worth, Newton has achieved many acclaimed performances in movies both big and small. Her debut in movies came in 1991, when at the age of 21 she appeared in Flirting, along with other future stars Nicole Kidman and Naomi Watts. After that, Newton appeared in the cult horror drama Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles. From there, both bigger-budgeted movies and acclaim awaited her in films like Mission Impossible II and the Merchant-Ivory Production Jefferson in Paris. Since becoming a star, Newton has appeared in multiple films by acclaimed director Jonathan Demme, including The Truth About Charlie. She also had a regular role on the popular NBC drama ER. Most recently, Newton was behind an uncanny portrayal of Condoleezza Rice in W, director Oliver Stone's film about President George W. Bush. In addition to being an actress, Thandie Newton has done lots of good work as a philanthropist, raising money and donating time for such causes as the environment and impoverished third-world nations. Her next role is in a movie called Retreat, set to be released later this year.

Thandiwe Nashita "Thandie" Newton (born 6 November 1972) is a British actress. She has appeared in a number of British and American films, including The Pursuit of Happyness, Mission: Impossible II, Crash, Run, Fatboy, Run and W.Newton was born in London, the daughter of Nyasha, a Zimbabwean health-care worker and Nick Newton, a laboratory technician and artist. Her birthplace has been incorrectly reported to be Zambia in some biographies, but she has confirmed in interviews that she was born in London, during a two-week trip by her parents. The name "Thandiwe" means "beloved" in Ndebele, Zulu, Xhosa or Swazi, and "Thandie" is pronounced /'taendi/ TAN-dee in English. According to Newton, her mother is a Shona princess. Regarding her childhood, Newton remarked at a TED conference: "From about the age of 5, I was aware that I didn't fit. I was the black, atheist kid in the all-white, Catholic school run by nuns. I was an anomaly." Raised in London and Penzance, Cornwall, she studied dance at the Tring Park School for the Performing Arts and at sixteen, while recovering from a back injury, she successfully auditioned for her first film role. She then went on to study social anthropology at Downing College, Cambridge, from 1992 to 1995, where she achieved a 2:1.Newton made her film debut in Flirting (1991). While filming she struck up a friendship with Nicole Kidman, now a lifelong friend.[citation needed] She played the role of Brad Pitt's maid Yvette in Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994). She gained international recognition in the Merchant Ivory production of Jefferson in Paris as Sally Hemings, which led to her being cast in Jonathan Demme's Beloved (1998), in which she played the title character with co-stars Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover. She played the female lead Nyah Hall in the film Mission: Impossible II. She was originally going to play Alex Munday in the film Charlie's Angels, but turned it down to appear in the low-budget fi

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